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Sternberg, Robert J.; Turner, Margaret E. – 1978
A study was conducted among 64 students in an introductory psychology class at Yale University to clarify the components of syllogistic reasoning used in a syllogistic evaluation task. A modified form of componential analysis was used to decompose the syllogistic evaluation task with abstract content into the subtasks of encoding and encoding plus…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Componential Analysis, Deduction
